The two of us

For this layout I used some older Kaiser, Fancy Pants and my beloved Scenic Route pp's and fancy pants transparency, HSwapp sticker A2Z scraplets, and Pink Paislee chipboard. I had this idea in my head and this is how it came out, not much else to do yesterday but scrap with the rain all day, but sunshine here for the moment this morning. I just heard Rusty Pickle has now closed, wow some bad times out their but guess doors will open for others. Time for a big cleanup this morning Jan came over yesterday and we watched "Nights in Rodanthe" - Richard Gere is still gorgeous and "Jane Austin Book Club" both were good girly movies, Nate occupied himself by pulling out every toy from the room into the lounge and I said, I am watching these movies so go for it, so this morning this bomb site has to be cleaned up, well in the middle of the movie he was in the room and then ran out to grab the broom so I knew something was going on, I went in and well he had glitter all over the floor, lounge, himself and poor old Stanley so we did have to pause for interval at this stage. But we had a lovely day, I got to scrap and watch some good movies. I hope whatever you are all doing you have a wonderful day. Love Melxx

Artistic challenge blog entry

This is my entry for Artistic challenge this month, had to be Art Nouveau style, I wasn't sure with that one, had to use a cut out photo, this is the only one I felt I could do this with, flourishes and a halo. Once the challenge is set I usually stress a bit and then things seem to fall into place, a bit like any immediate "hard basket" thing. I used some of the gorgeous papers and embellishments I got from last months Noel Mingon kit. Nate and I are travelling to Walloon to see a friend who recently had a baby, so he gets to play with Cooper and his mum and I can catch up, I can nurse little Lucas and hopefully the rain will stay away, Nate will then come home have a sleep and I can scrap.....Yay! Well that is the plan, hope you all have a wonderful day. Love Melxx

Screen to Scrap March Entry

This is my entry for Screen to Scrap, you had to have a white and blue layout, Feet in the title and have penguins on the layout, so this photo of my old feet seemed appropriate to me, these are my favourite Corelli wedge shoes so I am glad I took this photo a while ago, hope you all have a great day, overcast and showery here again. Love the rain, but a little sun in between would be nice, I don't want much hey. Have a great day. Love Melxx

Black with 2 March layout

This is my entry for Black with 2 this month, Majority black with cream and burnt orange is the colors you needed to use, stitching and lace and a chipboard piece was the criteria, I used some older photos I have been meaning to scrap for ages and used the title "You know your a scrapper when you see this" with an arrow pointing to Nate's flower covered nappy. Just showed me how much he has grown, too quick, I hope you like the layout, needed some boost today, raining here all day and a little bored, played trains with Nate and he did some painting, but although I love the rain, I think I am motivated more when the sun is shining.

Challenge Heaven Word Challenge

This challenge you had to use 4 pp's, use the word "mummy" and "blue title" and my example comes with rather funny photos of Nate in socks, and no clothes (tasteful I think though) and playing his new electric organ, his music and singing isn't quite worthy of a talent quest but he sure has fun, this was a rather warm day, so not sure about the socks but guess this put him in the mood. I think he will laugh at his 21st party when I bring this one out.

A True Reader

A Photo of my little man, having a bit of choc and reading the morning paper, must have been interesting as he is pointing to something on the page, guessing it was probably a bike or a car, not the all ords index lol. He has a chocolate in his lap but as he doesn't eat much chocolate, he more enjoys just unwrapping them and leaving the wrappers and half eaten bits over the house, can anyone else relate. I had some old Upsy Daisy papers with the paisley's on, and I used Scenic Route Backgroud paper (gee I am going to miss this Company, I love their papers)and I actually painted the background around the photo frame but most of it eventually got covered. I mounted the photo onto corrugated cardboard and framed that with sass lass borders, gotta love the bottoms of the sass lass paper, comes in so handy, put some Heidi Swapp brown dot stickers in the corner and some of her acetate brown embellies a fancy pants flourish and a couple of flowers, the butterfly came in a RAK. I like the finished result although I started with a pic in front of me and it turned out absolutely nothing like it, but got me started anyways. Love to you all, Melxx

Adore

I did another layout for Amanda and I know she has seen it and likes it so I thought I would share it, her son has the cutest little smile and it wasn't until after I compared this layout to the other one I did for her I realised that they are similar but different colourings, co-incidence hey...Well it is overcast with showers predicted here today so looks like after I go and pick up some necessities from the supermarket, I am going to scrap today, all going to plan that is. Hope whatever you are doing today, you have a fantastic time with your families. Love Melxx

Beach dreams

I captured these gorgeous photos of Nate at the Redcliffe Lagoon last year on a trip away for the day with Col and Jan, he had a wonderful time, got so wasted I had to carry him back to the car and he slept all the way home. (actually I think I fell asleep in the back also). I love the way he is just watching people, the water and is in awe of his surroundings. I love showing him new things and watching his face, when Nate goes quiet you know he is taking it all in (you know - he has the man thing, cannot talk and take it all in at once). Going to get the sizzix out today and try some new things, Jan is coming down as she is feeling a little better - she is even walking down (she only lives 8 houses up the road) but she has been so isolated at home whilst she has been sick, she really wants to walk. Then after lunch Nate is having a sleep and then has a party at Lollipops for his friend Cooper who is 5. That starts at 5.30 - 8.30pm and is a disco party, can you believe a 3 year old is attending his first disco, I think I was 14 before I went to the school discos. Life has certainly changed, the things he has seen and places he has been too, blow me away, they certainly have it different today than I did. Hope you all enjoy a wonderful day whatever you are doing, catch up with you on your blogs soon.

Buddies

Nate had a playdate in January and a friend brought her children around to play, Thomas is a yr younger than Nate but they had a ball together, he is a rough little tiger just like Nate is when he gets going. For this I had some cardboard wrapping off some product I had bought and I used my versamark water stamp pad to stamp the letters on then cut around them, I think it looks good. The journalling spot is also the packaging. A simple layout but I like the result. Hope you all have a fantastic day. Love Melxx

60 today

My good friend Jan had a surprise 60th b-b-q at Kholo gardens this day and well it was hard to keep it a surprise as she is very good at picking up on things, her husband and I arranged to take Nate to the gardens for a picnic, she seemed to believe it but I think she somehow knew. We had a great day, Nate took his bike, we played coits and totem tennis, ate way too much and all her family was their to help her celebrate.

No tea for me tonight mum

If Nate doesn't have his afternoon nap, by tea time this is what I find, he just falls asleep at the dinner table (around 5ish) so by 1.30pm I coax him into the bed after his bath and after I read 6,000,000 books to him and play with his book with the cat puppet in it, he tells Elliott the cat what he did for the morning, and then he goes off like a rock, mind you on hot days, I feel like staying in the air-con with him, but the couple of hours I get free is when I do my scrapping, or cooking the dogs their dinners, or house cleaning, or blogging. I used a cut out picture, something I never usually do, and added all sorts of ribbon coming out from him, another thing I never usually do. I hope you like it and have a great day. Love Melxx

Just for me layout

Some more of Nate mowing, I just love how he awakes everyday and wants to mow, we have a non motorised push mower too that he loves, but he just mows till he drops with exhaustion, I know when this is because he says "Mum you go now", isn't he adorable.

Photo and Layout swap with Amanda

I did this layout for my good friend Amanda Taylor, her little boy has the cutest smile so I cropped this photo and enlarged it, I used Rose Moka, Bo Bunny, Pink Paislee PP's, Fancy pants embellishments, and I just hope she likes it, it is fun to do someone else a layout, but also daunting at the same time. Went to the Handmade expo, took Nate to Granny and Grampsy's and then he had a big sleep, terribly hot here tonight, Bewitched (the movie) is on here, I hope you all are having a great day. Love Melxx

The look I love

I received a RAK I won a few weeks ago on Scrap that Poetry's Blog hop, this was from Nikki Antenello and I made this layout straight away. I love this photo of Nate looking out of the plane window when we went to Sydney last year. He was so in awe, and his shirt had the blue in it. This background paper is so bright and busy but I think everything on top of it makes the photo stand out. Sure helps when you have several papers and embellishments from the same brand. Hope you all have a great day, bit busy this end, but although I do not work at present, I still love my Fridays....Love Melxx

Just for me layout

Nate loves his bubbles so I did this layout for him just to remind him in years to come, I used some Fancy pants chipboard and some ribbon I got from the gorgeous Noel Mingon kit I received yesterday. Hope you like it. Love Melxxx

Challenge Heaven Christmas page challenge

I did this strange shaped page as the criteria was use Kraft as the base, I used a Fancy Pants Kraft Cuts piece, thanks Amanda for this, she sent me this in a RAK. You also had to have four photos and use chipboard on the page somewhere, it's an extremely busy page and I put pop dots under some embellishments to give some dimension to the page, I am not sure what I think of this one, but I know I love these photos of Nate and well he makes Christmas just so much fun now. I really look forward to seeing his little face when he opens presents.

Challenge Heaven Word Challenge

This is Nate at the "Nippers fun area" at Ipswich Railway Workshops on this funny looking bike, he just loves it there, I must take him again soon. The challenge was to use the word crazy, distress paper and stamp. I stamped a saying on the corner of the photo, I am not much of a stamper, but love them all the same, seeing so many wonderful stampers out there and what they can do frustrates me slightly, they are so clever. I loved this robot paper from Kaiser the robots are so cute, don't necessarily go with the theme but perfect for little boy pagers all the same. Thanks for looking, I actually think my mojo is creeping back this week. Yay!!

Scrap that poetry

My first ever entry for Scrap that Poetry. It was such a gorgeous poem and to me was about the bond that happens when you love someone, the unconditional feeling of total contentment. I totally enjoyed doing this layout and hope you like it.

Stick n' giggle challenge kit

This is my entry to my LSS challenge kit, you had to use a bit of everything in the kit, I struggled but then an idea came to me so I just went with it, we bought candy canes this year for the tree, Nate had more fun capturing them then actually eating them (which is good really) and I often caught him at the tree trying to get the top ones, he was a little bit young to still understand Christmas last year but this year I think will be just wonderful. He even sat on a Santa's knee when my friend's dad dressed up, still didn't get a pic with the Santa in the Shopping Santa he just didn't want to sit on his lap and just cried. I am so glad I have got these photos to look back on and am thankful the photos went with the kit.

Out of the Hat February Challenge

I just love this photo of Nate with vegemite all over his mounth, when he laughs I just seem to laugh too, his little eyes close up and well I just love him, so the title "Sunshine of my life" seemed very appropriate. This challenge you had to have some buttons and bows, a butterfly and a four word title.

Not much on today, I went to bed with Nate early last night and read the Scrapbooking Memories magazine. I am not sure if you saw the advertisement for the Scrappin Kats design team in it, but that is me, wow who would have thought my very first time officially published was going to be for an advertisement. But it was nice anyway. I hope you all have a wonderful day, relax and enjoy time with your wonderful families.

Challenge Heaven Colour Challenge

I love this photo of Nate, he is at the Railway Museum in Ipswich and being a boy is in awe at all the train things he is seeing, he is here on the little train that takes you for rides, he has just started to develop into a gorgeous little man, his attention span is longer and he actually concentrates on things, before 3, he just ran like a maniac when excited, so he is growing up, this is a good thing I know, but I still miss that little dependant boy I had. Selfish I know but time is just going by so quickly.

This challenge had the criteria "Black, White, Red and another colour, had to have a flourish and distressing (which I did on the bazzill and then inked)

Scrap the Girls February entry

This is my entry for this month's Scrap the Girls challenge, I found some covered wire in the wrapping of Nate's birthday present (it was a Thomas Train set) and I wound the little flowers and leaves around it and then tried to wrap it around to frame the photo, you had to add hearts also, but I used this gorgeous Franceville paper and cut the heart out, the title is "Dance like no-one is watching", This was taken when we put up the Christmas tree in December 09 and had the i-tunes on.

Challenge Heaven Quote Challenge

My dearest angel maxi or I call him "Master Hog" he loves to eat and I always know when he is under the weather as he leaves some food in his bowl, I make both dogs food up using mince veges rice and pasta so I am hoping this keeps Maxi around for a longer time, he is 15 this year. My first time at cutting around a photo like this, it is growing on me, I backed the treee with book paper and covered the front with pp, wowsers, this took ages. but in the end I like any layout I do of my old man. Thank you so much for looking. Hope you all have a precious day. Love Melxxx

Crafty Sketches February Entry

This is my February entry for Crafty Sketches, and this is Nate, with the useless little toy inside the bon bon on Christmas Day, so priceless considering he had received the most gorgeous presents and spent ages playing with this little plastic animal. PRICELESS!

Scrap around the Clock February Challenge

This layout is of me at 4 being flower girl at my Aunty's wedding, the criteria was distressing, glimmermist (which although I used it you can't really see it) I am thinking I might try to buy some of the new mists, they seem to show up clearer, and inking. I put my journalling on a pull out under the photo, I cannot put journalling on my layouts, I think I hate my handwriting and feel it makes me dislike my layout, crazy huh. Although I cannot remember much of this day, I am enjoying documenting these layouts for Nate to look back on in years to come. Thank you all for the wonderful encouraging posts you leave, so uplifting especially on days you don't feel inspired, have lost mojo and just tired. Love Melxx